This is significant news for a stock such as RBY. Now that the vaccines will be rationed due to a shortfall in production it would be silly to give it to people who are not infected with the swine flu virus, hence the reason for testing. Flu test kits will be the key here to saving vaccine.
RBY will rally hard today on this news, just repeating the news story
"U.S. slashes swine flu vaccine estimate 03:37, Tuesday, 18 August 2009
* Only 45 million doses available in mid-October
* Production problems, home country issues affect supply
WASHINGTON, Aug 17 (Reuters) - U.S. officials on Monday said they had slashed their estimate of how many swine flu vaccine doses will be available for the start of a mass vaccination campaign in the fall.
Citing delays in manufacturing and packaging the vaccines, the Department of Health and Human Services said only 45 million doses of the new H1N1 vaccine would be on hand in mid-October, instead of the 120 million previously forecast"
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